..These results highlight the importance of evaluating laterality in the MeA and suggest that the left and right MeA could play different roles in neuroendocrine regulation and sexually dimorphic social behaviors...

..These findings show that the excitatory synaptic organization of the left MeApd is sexually differentiated before puberty, which could provide a sexually dimorphic neural substrate for the effects of hormones on adult social behavior...

Estradiol potentiation of NR2B-dependent EPSCs is not due to changes in NR2B protein expression or phosphorylation

..quot; We conclude that increased early androgen exposure plays a role in only some cases of female homosexuality, and that the sexual orientation of "femme" lesbians is unlikely to have been influenced by early androgens...